Features Cognition Announces "World's Largest Semantic Map" Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what it claims is "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language." We interviewed Cognition CEO Scott Janus to find out what this means. We also discovered that… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Yubikey: Your Key To Securing the Web A company who believes they have the solution to our online security woes is Yubico, makers of a small USB dongle known as the Yubikey. This ingenious authentication solution can be combined with OpenID or other third party web sites to provide secure authentication on the web. Authentication is an area of security that is more important than… Sarah Perez View comments
Google Google Audio Indexing: Keyword Searches for Political Videos Two months ago, Google released a widget for iGoogle that allowed users to search for keywords in election related speeches on YouTube. Today, Google expanded the scope of this search to a larger selection of political videos and the widget graduated to become a full-blown Google Labs product named GAUDI. Interestingly, the tagline in Google Labs… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Maghound: Like Netflix for Magazine Subscriptions Time Inc. service offers cool idea, uninspired selection. Time Inc. launched its much anticipated magazine meta-subscription service Maghound today. The idea is that for a small fee, starting at three titles for $4.95 a month, you can swap out magazine subscriptions every month. It's like Netflix for magazine subscriptions, but unlike Netflix… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews OpenZine: Play Magazine Editor For a Day Chances are, you have seen one of those photocopied, five dollar zines about anything from local bands to organic gardening in your favorite magazine store. Florida based startup OpenZine is trying to take this idea of self-published amateur magazines to the web. In a world where blog publishing is ubiquitous and easy, however, what does OpenZine… Frederic Lardinois View comments